cheerly
Americanadverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of cheerly
Example Sentences
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Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
O cheerly, cheerly by the road And merrily down the billet; And where the acre-field is sowed With bristle-bearded millet.
From The Garden of Dreams by Madison J. Cawein
Abou spoke more low, But cheerly still, and said, "I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men."
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various
The chaunt by which the leadsman in the chains proclaims his soundings at each cast:— "To heave the lead the seaman sprung, And to the pilot cheerly sung, By the deep—nine."
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
Spin on cheerly, little daughter, till your needful task is done, Then go forth with bird and blossom, at the setting of the sun.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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